If this were some 1950s sci-fi thriller, the Doomsday Cloud would loom dark and ominous in the evening sky. Each night more stars would wink out along its edges. The cloud would sweep past Jupiter, swallowing it whole, and race on toward Earth. There would be an inky darknessat noon.
And so on.No, nothing is going to blot out the sun. But recent observations and numerical simulations suggest that eventually—in a few millennia, maybe—the solar system may plow into a cloud of gas and dust a thousand times denser than the space we travel through now. This interstellar fog could reduce the sun’s sphere of influence until most of the outer planets aresitting naked in space.
By
Herbert C. Fyfe
From Pearson's Magazine, July
1900. Illustrated by Warwick Goble
Many of us are apt, not without some reason, to regard the world we live in
as the centre of the universe, and to look upon the sun, the moon, and the stars
as objects placed in the heavens for the special benefit of the human race. That
the earth is but a minute object in the Cosmos; that it forms one of a number of
bodies, many of them larger than itself, revolving around their central
lumin...
Author:
B.A. Robinson
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Hartmann.
While global warming is being
officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al
Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent
years provided joke fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of
Europe and the Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such
climate change could produce for the northern hemisphere - a sudden shift into a
new ice age. What they're findi...
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